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🇨🇳 China · Rock art

Yinshan Rock Art

Neolithic to Qing (6000 BCE – 1800 CE) · Yangshao, Ordos, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Mongol

Inner Mongolian 300-km granite gallery 15,000 masks and Ordos chariots 6 ka BCE–Qing.

🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

La Pasiega Cave

Middle Paleolithic to Magdalenian ~64–11 ka BP · Neanderthal and later Solutrean/Magdalenian

Monte Castillo cave with 64 ka Neanderthal ladder motif and 700 parietal figures.

🇨🇳 China · Rock art

Zuojiang Huashan East Cliff — Fusui Mingjiang Rock Paintings

Bronze Age to Iron Age (Luoyue) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang) Dian-related

Fusui east cliff of UNESCO Huashan 170-m hematite painting with 1100 frog-shamans and bronze drums, 500 BCE–200 CE.

🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art

Kotuy River Petroglyphs, Taimyr

Early Iron Age to Ethnographic (Palaeo-Eskimo to Evenki) · Taimyr hunter-gatherers (Pyasinsky culture) and Evenki

Arctic canyon at 70°N with 200 elk and ski-figure peckings, northernmost Eurasian rock art.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Rock art

Hoa Binh Cave Sites (Lang Gom)

Mesolithic Hoabinhian 12,000–7000 → Da But → Phung Nguyen 2000 BCE · Hoa Binh / Hoabinhian Mesolithic (Vietnam northern karst)

Hoa Binh (Hòa Bình) culture type-site — karst rockshelter caves (12,000–2000 BCE, Mesolithic–Neolithic) 70 km south Hanoi on Ma River limestone karst, excavated 1927 Colani (ÉFEO) and 1970s–2000s Ha…

🇻🇳 Vietnam · Archaeological wonder

Truong Son

Hoabinhian 10,000–8000 BCE → Son Vi → Sa Huynh 1000 BCE–200 CE → War layer 1965–75 · Hoabinhian → Sa Huynh

Truong Son = Annamite highland caves (Hoabinhian→Sa Huynh, 10 ka–500 CE) on Hai Van crest (task-highlight).

🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Serra da Capivara

Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (9000 BCE – 500 CE) · Nordeste / Agreste

Serra da Capivara in Piauí, Brazil is a Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (9000 BCE – 500 CE) rock art attributed to Nordeste / Agreste culture.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Geoglifos de Pintados

Late Formative to Late Intermediate (700–1500 CE) · Atacameño, Tarapacá and Altiplano caravan cultures

400 Atacama caravan geoglyphs (700–1500 CE) etched in desert varnish above the Tamarugal pampa.

🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

Altamira Cave

Solutrean–Magdalenian ~18–14 ka BP · Solutrean/Magdalenian Cantabrian

Great Ceiling of polychrome bison — the Paleolithic Sistine Chapel at Santillana del Mar.

🇮🇳 India · Rock shelter

Bhimbetka Satellite Shelter — IIB-33

Mesolithic (7000 BCE) · Mesolithic

Bhimbetka Satellite Shelter — IIB-33 in Madhya Pradesh, Bhimbetka outlier, India is a Mesolithic (7000 BCE) rock shelter attributed to Mesolithic culture.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art

Drakensberg uKhahlamba Rock Art

Later Stone Age ~4000 BP–1800 CE · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer

35,000 San paintings in 600 Drakensberg shelters - shamanic eland dance archive.

🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art

Kalbak-Tash Yaloman Terrace — Chuya River Bench Petroglyphs

Bronze Age to Early Iron (2000 BCE – 500 BCE) · Karasuk to Pazyryk

River-level terrace with sun disks and yak riders opposite main cliffs.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Cerro Unita Giant

Late Intermediate Pica-Tarapaca 900-1450 CE · Tarapaca caravan and Pica oasis

86-m Atacama anthropomorphic giant (900-1450 CE) on Cerro Unita, largest prehistoric figure in Americas.

🇮🇷 Iran · Rock art

Behistun (Bisotun) Inscription of Darius I

Achaemenid Empire (Darius I) to Sassanian · Achaemenid Persian; Parthian Arsacid; Sassanian

522 BCE Darius trilingual on cliff 66 m high — cuneiform Rosetta for decipherment, Parthian–Sassanian roadside fringe.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art

Khoit Tsenkher North Cave — Terkhiin Tsagaan Extension

Upper Palaeolithic to Bronze Age · Palaeolithic Altai hunter-gatherers

North branch of Mongolia's only Palaeolithic painted cave, 15000 BCE ochre ostriches and mammoths in limestone.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art

Tsagaan Salaa North — Bayan-Ölgii Baga Oigor Panels

Upper Palaeolithic to Medieval · Palaeolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Turkic

North bank of Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor UNESCO valley, 7000 petroglyphs including 12000 BCE mammoth-hunt.

🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art

Shishkino Petroglyphs — Upper Lena Pillars Rock Art

Neolithic to Iron Age · Isakovo, Serovo, Kitoi, Glazkovo, Kurumchin

Upper Lena 3.5-km sandstone pillars with 2000 Neolithic–Iron elk, boats and shaman-horses, Okladnikov's type site.

🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph

Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs

Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche

30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.

🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art

Gwion Gwion (Bradshaw) Rock Art — Kimberley

Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene (12 ka BCE – 7 ka BCE) · Pleistocene Kimberley Aboriginal groups (Wunambal, Balanggarra ancestors)

Kimberley 100,000 shelters tasselled Gwion warriors 12 ka–7 ka oldest Australian figures.

🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art

Kalbak-Tash II — Yaloman Chuya Bluff Petroglyphs

Neolithic to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Scythian-Pazyryk, Turkic

Yaloman Chuya bluff 8 km north of Kalbak-Tash with 3000 petroglyphs, Afanasievo Deer Mother and tamga alley.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art

Tsagaan Salaa Central Panel

Upper Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Palaeolithic Kalgutinsky, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev

Mid-valley of Tsagaan Salaa with Late Pleistocene bulls under Bronze elk on same boulders.

🇸🇴 Somalia · Rock art

Laas Geel Rock Art Complex

Early to Mid Holocene (7000–3000 BCE) · Early Pastoral Neolithic of the Horn (pre-Cushitic pastoralists)

Somaliland granite shelters 20 panels polychrome longhorn cattle 7000–3000 BCE.

🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art

Siega Verde Rock Engravings – Águeda River

Upper Palaeolithic (Solutrean–Magdalenian) · Solutrean–Magdalenian hunter-gatherers of western Iberia

443 Palaeolithic figures on Águeda schist—UNESCO trans-frontier extension of Côa Valley (20–10k BCE).

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art

Cholpon-Ata North Petroglyph Field

Early Nomadic to Early Medieval · Saka, Wusun, Turkic (Issyk-Kul basin pastoralists)

North sector of 42-ha Cholpon-Ata lake-shore museum with Saka snow-leopard petroglyphs.

Notable rock art sites

Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve

Behistun (Bisotun) Inscription of Darius I

Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings (Kolo)

Phu Phra Bat Historical Park — Sima Stone Tradition

Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions

Albarracín Rock Art — Pinsapar and Prado del Navazo

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Yinshan Rock Art

La Pasiega Cave

Zuojiang Huashan East Cliff — Fusui Mingjiang Rock Paintings

Kotuy River Petroglyphs, Taimyr

Hoa Binh Cave Sites (Lang Gom)

Truong Son

Serra da Capivara

Geoglifos de Pintados

Altamira Cave

Bhimbetka Satellite Shelter — IIB-33

Drakensberg uKhahlamba Rock Art

Kalbak-Tash Yaloman Terrace — Chuya River Bench Petroglyphs

Cerro Unita Giant

Behistun (Bisotun) Inscription of Darius I

Khoit Tsenkher North Cave — Terkhiin Tsagaan Extension

Tsagaan Salaa North — Bayan-Ölgii Baga Oigor Panels

Shishkino Petroglyphs — Upper Lena Pillars Rock Art

Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs

Gwion Gwion (Bradshaw) Rock Art — Kimberley

Kalbak-Tash II — Yaloman Chuya Bluff Petroglyphs

Tsagaan Salaa Central Panel

Laas Geel Rock Art Complex

Siega Verde Rock Engravings – Águeda River

Cholpon-Ata North Petroglyph Field

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Notable rock art sites

Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve

Behistun (Bisotun) Inscription of Darius I

Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings (Kolo)

Phu Phra Bat Historical Park — Sima Stone Tradition

Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions

Albarracín Rock Art — Pinsapar and Prado del Navazo

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